The Botanist and the Beastly Duke

An Enemies to Lovers Regency Historical Romance

I told her to leave. She stayed, and now I can’t breathe without her.

They call me the mad Duke of Penrose,
a beast locked away in a house as broken as my soul.

I wanted silence. I earned it in blood and war.
But then she arrived in the storm—small, stubborn, soaked to the bone,
claiming she came to restore my mother’s gardens.

tried to banish her.
Yet every time I see her hands in the soil, coaxing life from death,
something inside me cracks.

She speaks to the roses like they can still be saved.
And God help me, I start to believe her.

Her laughter haunts these empty halls.
Her courage burns where my heart used to be.

But I can’t let her in.
Because if she ever learns the truth about what I’ve done,
she might flee from me forever.

And I would rather live in ruin than lose her light.

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